Opposite Quotes - page 8

Is it not want of reason in any one to suppose that when he has striven successfully to escape the dominion of one particular passion, he will find virtue in its opposite? (Gregory of Nyssa)
The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them. View quote
Michael Spence
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. View quote
Martin Seligman
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong. View quote
Marshall Goldsmith
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. View quote
Meg Cabot
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. View quote
Mary Balogh
Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise out of your biological system. So that, it's not going to make your immune system stronger than normal. What it does, in my view, is allow your immune system to work with the full force of normality. View quote
Neal Barnard
Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors. View quote
Paul Schrader
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life. View quote
Andrew Weil
There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything. (Rhonda Byrne)
A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does. View quote
William Delbert Gann
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. View quote
Ulrich Beck
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. View quote
Helen Fisher
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. View quote
Adam Johnson
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. View quote
Bill Cosby
I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp. View quote
Brian May
Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls. View quote
Burhan Sonmez
People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite. (Deb Caletti)
Everything is known through its opposite. View quote
Dane Rudhyar
So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement. View quote
Dennis Merzel
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. View quote
James Hillman
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. View quote
Douglas Wilson